Notes from a Screenreader: Lie to Me
Photo via Go Into the Story. Lie to me. Most spec scripts have an importance of being earnest problem. They tell the reader the truth, all of it, all the time. All the backstory, all the exposition, all of what everyone is doing and precisely why, before it even happens. Lying to the reader in your...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: November 19, 2013
The five women doc directors qualifying for Oscars (image via IndieWire). Championing: Veena Sud’s mystery drama The Killing, which has just been picked up by Netflix for 6 final episodes. Feeling Triumphant About: Women filmmakers and filmmakers of color racking up the awards. Women filmmakers swept half the AFI Awards last week, and at least five feature-length...
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: Stories We Tell
One of the best documentaries this year comes from Sarah Polley, already an accomplished narrative director (if you haven’t already, go watch Away From Her and Take This Waltz). In Stories We Tell, Polley turns the lens on her own family secrets and potentially devastating personal revelations. It is a fantastic film that seamlessly uses actors and old family movies to tell...
READ MORERoad to Muse 2013: Meet Awards Show Organizer Susan Steiger
Susan Steiger (third from the right), the rest of the NYWIFT board, and Muse honorees take the stage at the 2012 Muse Awards. At the 2001 Muse Awards, Dede Allen — the first editor to get an exclusive credit on a film — received a standing ovation from a packed house. It’s those moments that make Susan...
READ MOREWeekly Film & TV News Roundup
Photo by Google photos Need to finance your project? Check out these grant writing secrets. Maya’s coming back! Maya’s coming back! Well played, Lorne. WIE Network founder Dee Poku on taking risks, entrepreneurship & the state of women. This Lena Dunham & Mindy Kaling interview is FUNNY and very important. “Older guys” at ABC couldn’t steal Shonda Rhimes’ creative thunder. Soledad...
READ MORENYWIFT Fall Membership Drive
NYWIFT’s most important asset is its members, and this year, we’re calling on ALL OF YOU. Help build our amazing community of over 2000 successful women in the film and television industry by participating in our Fall Membership Drive. New members will receive two great discounts (50% off initiation fee, and over 50% off Muse...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: November 12, 2013
Lena Dunham interviews Mindy Kaling for Rookie (photo via Rolling Stone) Laughing Over: two great role models tackling sexism in the media, among other things, in Rookie: Yearbook Two, the second print publication from Rookie, a website for teen girls. Saddened, But Inspired By: the relief efforts by V-Day, who established RISE for the Philippines, a...
READ MORENYWIFT Recap: The Content Creator’s Journey
Video courtesy of thehipsway. NYWIFT presented the panel DIY: The Content Creator’s Journey at the Tribeca Film Center on October 17. Moderated by Thelma Adams from Yahoo! Movies, the panel featured Shari Berman (award-winning filmmaker, My Life as Abraham Lincoln), Alysia Reiner (actor, Orange is the New Black, director, Speed Grieving), Al Thompson (writer/director of web series Lenox Avenue), Adam Leon (director, Gimme The...
READ MOREBechdel Test Adopted by Swedish Theaters
A Bechdel Test approval certificate now in use at select Swedish theaters People are sounding off around the internet after four Swedish movie theaters announced last week that they had adopted the Bechdel Test as a new rating for gender bias in their programming. Famously invented by graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in 1985, the test checks for...
READ MOREWeekly Film & TV News Roundup
Photo: Russell James Glamour magazine’s 2013 Woman of the Year honoree Barbara Streisand has 5 pieces of advice. We can certainly get behind this student filmmaking PACT5. Will Deadline.com still be worth reading? Television love triangles may not be the best thing for women. Maybe. 2nd 2nd AD Alicia Lewis knows a thing or three about...
READ MORE2013 Award Season Scripts
‘Tis that time of year again. That joyous time when the studios release all their award scripts for you to download for free. Enjoy!
READ MORETerry’s Picks: November 5, 2013
Scene from The Revolutionary via SFWeekly Just Read About: the 3rd Annual South Asian Film Festival in San Francisco where the focus is on women filmmakers. Looking Forward to: our panel opening the New York Comedy Festival that features some of the industry’s top female comedians. AND THE BIG NEWS IS: Variety just announced this year’s Muse Awards amazing honorees! I hope to see you...
READ MOREPROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: Women in Comedy
Samatha Bee hanging with the Muppets It was almost two years ago that NYWIFT members Terry Greenberg and Susan Ades came up with the idea to produce a program focusing on women in comedy. Both being “ardent comedy lovers,” shares Greenberg, they knew they wanted a fresh take on the topic so they looked to...
READ MOREWEEKLY ROUNDUP
Photo via CraveOnline Jessica Lange loves being a witch and aspires to have “No goals!” in life. Ellen is bringing a lesbian female lead to NBC. Hello diversity! The Hollywood myths used against female directors. ((insert angry face)) Read both this & this opinion on having a successful acting career. Agree? Highlights from TheWrap power breakfast 2013....
READ MORETweet of the Week: Muse Awards on Variety
Connie Britton, @EllenBarkin, Robin Wright, @SoniaMManzano and Frances Berwick to score @NYWIFT’s Muse Awards. http://t.co/z05QgHW2b5 — Variety (@Variety) October 31, 2013 Hope to see you all there! – @annelabarba //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
READ MORENYWIFT PROGRAMS: NOVEMBER
Comedian Whitney Cummings November programs are going to fill up fast so make sure to RSVP ASAP! Thursday, November 7, 2013 Women In Comedy: Changing Times Our guests—Whitney Cummings, Samantha Bee, Fran Drescher and Delia Ephron—have had a major impact on the world of comedy and they’ll share their journeys as performers, writers and producers...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: October 29, 2013
NYWIFT Member Vanessa Corwin with her IIFM award Go Check Out: NYWIFT member, and Academy Award winner, Barbara Kopple’s new film, Running from Crazy. It Opens on Friday and will be playing at the Angelica Film Center. Congrats To: NYWIFT members Vanessa Corwin, whose film Save the Putnam Nature Trail, won her the “Best Indie...
READ MOREProject Spotlight : In Montauk by Kim Cummings
Note: some spoilers Written and directed by NYWIFT member Kim Cummings, In Montauk is a full length feature about Julie (Nina Kaczorowski) a married photographer, who heads to a small Montauk motel after the summer crowds leave to prepare for her first photography exhibition. While at the hotel, Julie meets Christian (Lukas Hassel) a musician...
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